Category: Windows 2008

I was working with an old Windows 2008 R2 server last night. It needed a "few" updates!
So I will first admit to several of my own mistakes. I did not give myself time to update this machine regularly enough in the past and of course we always have to… more »

This week I added an Orchestrator 2012 Runbook server to an existing one for scale-out and high availability reasons. Very soon it was ready to go and I was making some additional runbooks to use together with SCOM. In these runbooks were Run .Net Scrip… more »

Was monitoring an Exchange machine today and got a message that the Log disk contained less than x percent of storage. First thing to check if backups have run on the machine, because if those fail the log disk tends to fill up quickly. But the backups… more »

Last week I installed a SCOM agent on a Windows 2008 R2 print server, only to discover that the SCOM agent went wild and kept crashing. Furthermore I found out it was generating a lot of data (about 18 milion entries in a few hours). So what had happene… more »

Yesterday the Windows Server Management Pack got a new update to version 6.0.7026.0 .
Changes in This Update
The April 2013 update (version 6.0.7026.0) of the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack contains the following changes:
Fixed a b… more »

A few months ago Microsoft released newer versions of the Windows Server base OS management pack. This version had a good number of improvements, especially in the monitoring of cluster disk and cluster shared volumes. However the pack was still not com… more »

Because of questions from two customers about high availability for Hyper-V virtual machines and NOT similar hardware between the hosts I was clicking around and found an interesting checking tool for processor compatibility for hosts that you want to a… more »

Re-blogging the announcement as is:
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, Windows Small Business… more »

I almost feel stupid to say but i never fully understood how this really works. I read many articles and examples but still i never got the picture.
Until i read a blog of Kudrat Sapaev where it is easy and crystal clear explained!
The blog can be… more »

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This blog is run by Bob Cornelissen, a System Center enthousiast for a number of years now and managing consultant for BICTT. I work daily with SCOM in designing, implementing, configuring and extending this great product. Also I work with SCVMM, SCDPM, SCE, SCSM, Forefront products and a lot of MS Server technologies.I was very honored to receive the MVP award in 2012 + 2013 + 2014 and the MCC award in 2011 + 2012 for SCOM and System Center. Author of the Mastering SCOM 2012 book.
Also blogging here:Ivan Hadzhiyski - A System Center specialist from Bulgaria specialising in SCCM and SCOM and writer on the Mastering SCOM 2012 team.